In partnerships with Samsung and Microsoft, React Native apps can now be written for Windows, Xbox, smart TVs and wearables.

Also new is a React Native Gallery app the team created to show off all the functionality of the Windows tool while helping development efforts, such as cross-platform module testing, [Click on image ...

Being able to target Windows using React Native, a framework for cross-platform development that came out of Facebook, isn’t new.

Microsoft is adding Universal Windows Platform support to the Reactive Native open-source development framework launched by Facebook.

Facebook's desktop Messenger apps are built with React Native. Now, the React Native team at Facebook is creating a sub-team to support React Native Windows and macOS.

While the Electron framework is widely adopted for app development, React Native provides a leaner, native experience on Windows.

This platform works well in reducing the difficult development process. React Native app development makes use of JavaScript as the core programming language.